Actors Actors LEE Jae-hoon, PARK Jung-min, AHN Jae-hong, and CHOI Woo-shik have signed on to star in YOON Sung-hyun's upcoming film Hunting Time (translated title). Hunting Time depicts a near future where young people, living in slums, are forced to commit crimes to survive in a Korea that has been ravaged by economic crisis. Preparations for the highly anticipated film have been ongoing for ...

Actress KIM Hye-soo’s action-crime vehicle A Special Lady has officially been invited to the 36th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) for the competition section. Directed by LEE An-gyu, A Special Lady is a noir film that centers around KIM’s character Hyeong-jong, a woman who becomes the 2nd in command of a gang and grows it into a major criminal operation. The film also featur...

KIM Byung-woo and HA Jung-woo, the director and star duo behind the 2013 smash The Terror, LIVE, are teaming up again for rescue thriller PMC. Joining HA on screen will be LEE Sun-kyun. PMC, which stands for private military company, focuses on a group of military contractors that must rescue a prisoner who is being held in an underground bunker during a period of escalating tensions between North...

The number of audiences and the total sales in May, 2017 were 18.68 million and USD 132 million, respectively. According to the report on May 2017 Korean film industry by Korean Film Council (KOFIC), these are the largest among the May records ever. The total number of viewers increased by 550,000 and 3.0% while the total sales grew USD 1.5 million and 1.1% from the same period of previous year. M...

The number of audiences and the total sales in April were 11.21 million and USD 80.4 million, respectively. According to the report on April 2017 Korean film industry by Korean Film Council (KOFIC), the total number of viewers increased 1.22 million and 12.2% while the total sales grew more than USD 8.5 million and 11.9% from the same period of last year. Market share of Korean films was 38.2% whi...

In the midst of several holidays, business blew up to 3.24 million admissions over the early May weekend as three new titles in particular fought a close battle for first place. Hollywood releases commanded 58% of the market, leaving local titles with 40%. Coming in at number one was Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 with a sturdy 884,000 viewers (USD 6.86 million) and already 1.72 million spectators...

A pair of local new films lifted viewership 50% week on week during the last weekend of April, as 1.88 million tickets were sold during the sunny frame, two of which were snapped up for local films. The week’s biggest new release was Showbox’s election drama The Mayor, featuring CHOI Min-shik as the Mayor of Seoul as he embarks on a re-election campaign, which opened with 599,000 viewers (USD 4.39...

Admissions dropped 25% week-on-week during a quiet weekend with no major new releases. With The Fate of the Furious once again leading the pack, Hollywood titles accounted for 78% of the 1.22 million seats filled over the frame. The eighth installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise welcomed another 683,000 viewers (USD 5.2 million) as it eased just 35%, giving it a 12-day total of 2.58 mill...